Recommendations to shoe importers and owners of customs warehouses

Recommendations to shoe importers and owners of customs warehouses

Recommendations to owners of customs warehouses, participants in foreign economic activity, declarants and all interested persons on their further activities in connection with the introduction of mandatory digital marking of shoes.

 

Since November 1, 2021, mandatory digital marking of shoes has been introduced in the Republic of Kazakhstan. This means that from now on, it is prohibited to manufacture and import shoes into the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan without the Data Matrix code.

Kazakhtelecom JSC was defined by the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 03.03.2020 No. 95 as a Single operator of marking and traceability of commodity groups.

Digital labeling of goods is an international project implemented on the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

 

Shoes imported to Kazakhstan and corresponding to the codes of the commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity (HS) 6401, 6402, 6403, 6404, 6405, subject to mandatory digital labeling.

In accordance with paragraph 4 of the Agreement on the Labeling of Goods by Means of Identification in the Eurasian Economic Union, it is provided that the labeling of goods imported into the customs territory of the EAEU is carried out before placing such goods under customs procedures for release for domestic consumption or re-import. Consequently, the marking of shoe goods should be carried out on the territory of third countries or on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan until the completion of customs clearance.

In accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 238 of the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Customs Regulation in the Republic of Kazakhstan" (Code), certain operations may be performed with goods placed under the customs procedure of a customs warehouse, including labeling of goods.

The admission of representatives of the Operator and importer to the customs warehouse for marking operations is carried out on the basis of a permanent or temporary pass in accordance with Article 404 of the Code.

 

Work of customs warehouses with shoe goods

The customs warehouse is a platform where marking operations can be carried out. The relationship between importers and customs warehouses for marking is regulated by the civil legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

 

The role of the customs authority in marking shoes

The customs authority grants temporary or permanent access to the territory of the customs warehouse to the importer and the operator. The admission is given for performing simple assembly operations, as well as other operations related to the labeling of goods.

 

The unified operator recommends customs warehouses wishing to carry out marking on the territory of warehouses:

1) have in the presence of closed heated rooms with an appropriate area for the provision of marking services;

2) have available storage equipment (racks, tables, machinery and equipment for moving goods, fire-fighting equipment);

3) have available infrastructure (provision of electricity, availability of Internet connection);

4) conclude an agreement with the importer to carry out labeling operations in respect of goods belonging to the importer.

 

A single operator recommends to the importer:

1) obtain admission from the customs authority to the territory of the customs warehouse to carry out operations for the preparation of goods for sale and transportation (transportation), including batch splitting, formation of shipments, sorting, packaging, repacking, labeling, operations to improve the presentation;

2) have a computer, a 2D scanner, a printer for printing DataMatrix codes. If there is no printer, the importer can use the services of a printing house to print DataMatrix codes.

The printing of DataMatrix codes on printers must comply with the readability class according to ISO 15415 standard not lower than "C".

 

For reference:

The main regulatory legal documents regulating labeling activities:

  1. The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On regulation of trade activity".
  2. Agreement on the Marking of Goods by Means of Identification in the Eurasian Economic Union dated February 2, 2018 (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement).
  3. Decision of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission "On the introduction of marking of footwear products by means of identification" No. 72.
  4. The decision of the Council of the Eurasian economic Commission No. 19 "On the basic technological organizational model system labeling by means of identification in the Eurasian economic Union".
  5. Government decision No. 588 "On amendments to the Government decree No. 568 "About determination of the list of goods subject to marking".
  6. Resolution of the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. No. 620 "the definition of the limit of the amount of control (identification) sign, means of identification, used in the marking Shoe of the goods.
  7. Order of the Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 518 "On approval of the Rules of marking and traceability by control (identification) marks of shoe goods".